That's all I do, solder and shrink tube. I use wire nuts in buildings where they are designed to be used.
After working as a mechanic some of the stuff I've seen on vehicle wiring still amazes me. My oldest boy had a radio "professionally" installed. When he had problems with it I took it apart. Wires were twisted together and taped up......with masking tape. This was at a business that sells electronics! . And I'm not talking about those who use crimp on connectors. I'm talking about the using speaker wire for a circuit or twist and tape. Either is OK for a quick emergency repair but when it's been that way forever there is a problem. I'm not real keen on wire nuts on vehicle wiring. They are designed for solid single strand wire. Not multi strand automotive wiring. They are better than twist and tape any day.
There are far more people out there who are willing to tackle electrical stuff than there are people who know what they are doing. I see a lot of tractors with cobbled up wiring. I think there it's a smaller guy, operating on a shoe string who needs to needs something running. I have to rewire one for a friend in the spring. There is copper core spark plug wiring used for primary circuits on his 8N. What gets me is that this is one that never had the optional lights. So there is maybe 12 feet of wire on the whole tractor. Yet the wire from the ignition resistor to the coil, about 2', is spark plug wire, twisted and clamped under the nuts.
The wiring on my 1206 Farmall cab wasn't much better. One run for the blower motor had 3 but connectors making splices over about a foot of wire.
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